COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MATHEMATICAL WRITING WITH LATEX

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ENGIN MERMUT

Offered to

Statistics (English)

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to introduce the researcher in mathematics the principles of mathematical writing always accompanied by the software package LaTeX which is very convenient and helpful to produce mathematical texts.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Will be able to write clear mathematical texts with correct English usage.
2   Will be able to write a paper, thesis and talk using LaTeX.
3   Will be able to produce logically well-organized texts with correct numbering, contents, references, citations etc. easily using LaTeX.
4   Will be able to use the many present LaTeX packages for further help in producing mathematical texts.
5   Will be able to improve writing by reading and analyzing papers and books which have won prizes for expository writing.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Writer's tools, mathematical writing, tips for mathematical texts.
2 English usage. Writing clear proofs of mathematical statements.
3 How to use LaTeX to produce well-written mathematical texts in a fruitful way
4 How to use LaTeX to write a paper, to revise a draft, to publish a paper.
5 How to use LaTeX to write and defend a thesis, to write a talk and to to give a talk, to prepare a poster.
6 To produce logically well organized texts prepared by \LaTeX\ which lets the users deal little with organizing the details on numbering and referring of mathematical statements (theorems, lemmas, etc.), tables, figures.
7 To use LaTeX to prepare table of contents, to organize bibliography databases, citation kinds.
8 How LaTeX helps the mathematician to concentrate just on the contents when writing, not to lose time with typographic and technical details.
9 Practice and examples for writing using LaTeX.
10 Aids and resources for writing and research in mathematics.
11 How to do graphics in LaTeX
12 How to integrate LaTeX with web
13 Further help in LaTeX using the companions to learn how to use many packages.
14 The nature of the mathematical enterprise, a glimpse of mathematical culture: Recommended reading which won prizes for expository writing.

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
[1] Nicholas J. Higham, Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences, SIAM, 1998.
[2] George Gratzer, More Math into LaTeX. 4th edition. Springer, 2007.
[3] Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, Helmut Kopka, Patrick W. Daly, The LaTeX Companions, Revised Boxed Set: A Complete Guide and Reference for Preparing, Illustrating, and Publishing Technical Documents, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture Notes, Presentation.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Homework
Presentation and Report.

Assessment Criteria

%50 (Homework) +%50 (Presentation and report)

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

In order to improve mathematical writing with LaTeX, you need to examine the examples in the references and learn the details about LaTeX in by writing in LaTeX.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Engin Mermut
e-mail: engin.mermut@deu.edu.tr
Phone: (232) 301 85 82

Office Hours

To be announced later.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 9 4 36
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 115

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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